changelog
Everything we've shipped.
Every user-visible change in Oris, newest first, in plain language — filter it by the release something shipped in, or switch to Coming soon for what's still ahead on the roadmap. The bigger stories get a longer telling on the blog.
62 changes · updated
Now
What we're working on right now.
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Richer, structured notes
Templates and structured sections for the notes Oris writes, so a meeting arrives in the shape you already think in.
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Destinations you can manage
Change where notes land — your account, folder, or vault — after setup, not just during it.
Next
Planned, and coming after Now.
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Knows when a meeting starts
ProOris notices the meeting and offers to record, even the impromptu ones.
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A what's-new you can browse in the app
Update notes now appear right in the updater, and the full history lives on this site's changelog — next is a browsable what's-new inside Oris itself.
Later
On the map, a little further out.
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Live transcription
ProWatch the transcript build as the conversation happens, not only after you stop.
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Per-speaker labels
ProTell the people on the other side of the call apart, instead of pooling everyone under one label.
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Speak anywhere
ProDictation-grade capture into any app on your Mac, not only your notes.
August 2026
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Quick Notes transcribe more reliably — meetings and quick notes now share an engine
Some external microphones — broadcast- and podcast-style USB mics especially — could make quick notes come out garbled, and a mis-heard note looks just like an ordinary one. Oris now transcribes quick notes with the same engine meetings use, which handled every microphone we tested cleanly. A new Speech engine setting, on the renamed Quick Notes tab, lets you switch to a faster engine if you're on a built-in mic or AirPods.
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Ask the handbook anything
Press ⌘K anywhere on orisnotes.com to search the handbook instantly — or ask a question and watch a cited answer stream in.
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Clicking an old notification finally works — macOS was dropping it
A notification clicked minutes or hours later used to vanish into a bare app launch: macOS only hands the click to a live listener, and ours was long gone. Oris now journals every banner it posts and reconstructs the click on launch — the right note opens, and in the one case two dismissed banners genuinely can't be told apart, Oris opens the Recordings tab instead of guessing. One meeting also now means one notification — the "open Oris to finish delivery" banner only appears when Oris is actually closed, and clicking it opens Oris on the Recordings tab.
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A recovered quick note cleans up after itself · minor
When a capture lands in a replacement note (after the original was moved or deleted), the failed first attempt now retires itself — no lingering red "delivery failed" row for a note that actually arrived.
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Notes formatting artifacts are gone from delivered notes · minor
The "Summarized by" line no longer shows stray asterisks, and the audio line no longer breaks mid-filename — every note delivered to Apple Notes renders clean, including emphasis inside links.
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A landed quick note retires the failed attempts behind it · minor
Manually sending a held capture now retires the older failed attempts behind it, instead of leaving them to independently land a second copy of the same words later.
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The first delivery on a new Mac no longer waits for a relaunch · minor
On a Mac that had never delivered a note before, the first queued delivery could sit in Awaiting delivery until Oris was reopened — the hand-off was watching for a change in a folder that did not exist yet, so nothing told it the work had arrived. It watches from the start now, and the first one lands like every one after it.
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Clicking a notification works whenever you get to it
The groundwork for late notification clicks: what a click should open now rides on the notification itself instead of living in a short-lived helper's memory. The Aug 13 entry above finishes the job for clicks that arrive after everything has exited.
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Quick notes keep landing after you move the note they go into · minor
Moving the note your quick notes append to out of its folder — or pointing Oris at a different folder — used to stop them reaching Apple Notes at all: every capture was held in Oris with a message about folder policy and no way to send it on. Oris now looks for the note inside the folder you chose, makes a fresh one when there isn't one, and leaves the note you moved exactly as it is.
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Folder pickers start somewhere sensible · minor
The setup Browse panels for a vault or Markdown folder now open at your current selection — or at Documents on a first pick — instead of wherever your Mac's last Open panel happened to be, which was often Downloads.
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One slow Apple Notes call no longer strands the deliveries behind it · minor
When Apple Notes is briefly busy, the notes queued behind it are checked again on the next pass instead of being set aside for you to sort out by hand.
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Quick notes collected across days now say which day each one was · minor
A pinned or weekly quick-notes note used to fill with time-only lines that all looked like today; each line now carries the day it was spoken, while the per-day note stays as it was — the date is already its title.
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Deliveries parked by the Apple Notes permission resume on their own
If a note queued while Oris wasn't allowed to control Apple Notes — the permission switched off, or reset — turning the permission back on and reopening Oris is now enough: everything that was waiting delivers by itself, including an attempt that was cut off mid-write, which Oris first checks against the note so nothing lands twice.
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Setup can't skip past an unfinished destination · minor
The walkthrough's Continue button now waits until the destination you picked is actually set up, the Apple Notes permission row leads with the button that fixes what it reports — granting access, or opening the right System Settings pane and re-checking when you return — and the quick-note settings name the real way to change where notes land.
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Transcription works fully offline once the model is on disk
A cached transcription model now loads without touching the network, so a recording stopped on a plane, behind captive-portal Wi-Fi, or during an ISP blip transcribes exactly like one on a healthy connection — and when a model genuinely does need downloading, the status bar says so instead of sitting on “preparing”.
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Stuck deliveries knock, and delivered quick notes open in Apple Notes · minor
When a capture can't be delivered and ends up waiting, Oris now posts one notification — it's saved in Oris, and clicking brings you to the queue — instead of leaving the Recordings badge to be discovered by accident. And a quick note that already landed in Apple Notes offers Open in Apple Notes, taking you straight to the note it went to.
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Quick notes and Apple Notes agree on where a capture lives · minor
A quick note held in Oris now marks itself sent the moment it reaches your Notes note — pressing Send again can't make a second copy — the Recordings tab shows a count whenever captures are still waiting to deliver, and the Voice tab names the Notes folder and note your quick notes actually append to.
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Your meetings, straight into Apple Notes
Apple Notes is a destination now, alongside an Obsidian vault and a folder of Markdown files. Pick the account and folder during setup — Oris reads them from Notes, marks shared folders as shared, and asks for the one macOS permission it needs behind an explainer rather than in the middle of a delivery. Meetings arrive as a note in that folder, quick notes append to a note a day or to one note you name, and Open note takes you to it. Because macOS grants that permission to the app, a recording finished while Oris is closed is saved and shows as awaiting delivery, then lands on its own when you open Oris — never as a note that doesn't exist yet.
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Record a meeting without Obsidian
Oris can now capture, transcribe, and deliver a meeting entirely on its own: a record strip in the app starts and stops the recording, shows where the note will land, and opens it when it's ready. During setup you choose the destination — an Obsidian vault as before, or any folder of Markdown files, with notes named by a date-time-title pattern or appended to one note. Existing Obsidian setups carry over untouched.
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A failed summary is recoverable without Obsidian
When a summary fails on a recording you made without Obsidian, retrying now finds the note Oris created for you and patches it, instead of leaving the summary in a file beside the audio and calling that a success. If the note genuinely can't be found, the retry says so and keeps the failure, so the retry stays available — and the note and its notifications now point at the app's Recordings tab rather than an editor or a terminal command you may not have.
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A note recorded from Obsidian still lands in your folder
If you record from the Obsidian plugin while your destination is a Markdown folder, the transcript now lands there instead of waiting in the outbox. A folder has no cursor to insert at, so the destination decides: a new file under your naming pattern, or the end of the single note you chose to append to, exactly as that destination always places a note. The marker in the note you were typing in stays behind as an invisible comment you can delete, and the completion notification names the file that was actually written. The same applies when you import a transcript into a note you already have open.
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Start your next meeting without clearing the last one · minor
When a recording finished, the "Notes ready" message took the record button's place in the app's strip, so starting a second meeting meant finding a small ✕ to clear it first. A finished run no longer takes that place: its message and "Open note" button now sit beside the record button, and a run that failed puts its message there the same way, so either way the next meeting is one click away and starting it clears the finished one.
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The tour teaches the setup you actually chose · minor
The optional tour Oris offers at the end of setup now matches your destination. If your notes go to a Markdown folder, it shows you the app's own record strip and the retry that lives in Recordings, instead of sending you to Obsidian's ribbon icon and command palette for software you may not have installed. An Obsidian vault still gets the same set of cards it had before.
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See what's still waiting to land · minor
When a transcript is saved but couldn't be written into its note, the Recordings tab now shows it under "Awaiting delivery" — what's waiting, where it was going, and why — with a retry button, and a "Mark delivered" answer for the rare case where Oris asks you to check the note instead of risking a duplicate.
July 2026
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A changelog you can link to
Everything Oris has shipped now lives on one page — every user-visible change in plain language, newest first, at orisnotes.com/changelog.
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Your transcript can no longer go missing
Finished transcripts and notes are saved durably before they go into your note, and every landing is recorded — so if a write fails mid-meeting, the transcript waits in an outbox instead of vanishing, the recordings history says exactly what happened, and one click delivers the saved copy. Never twice: a retry that already landed is recognized and skipped.
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Models ready means the model you picked · minor
Changing the transcription model in Settings now updates the readiness check and the warmup immediately, so "Models ready" and "Prepare models" reflect the model you chose instead of the one Oris shipped with.
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System audio that survives your audio interface
When the device you play sound through also has inputs of its own, like a USB audio interface or a dock with a built-in microphone, Oris now works out which stream is the meeting and records that one, so the others track holds what the other side said rather than nothing at all.
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Hi-res output devices no longer stop a recording
Playing through a device that runs above 48 kHz, like a hi-res DAC or a headphone jack set to a high sample rate, used to end the recorder the instant it launched while everything on screen still showed a live recording. Oris now records at the highest rate it can encode and leaves your device's own setting alone.
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The other side, recorded at its real speed
When the device you play sound through runs at a different rate than Oris first read, the meeting audio was captured slightly fast or slow, and the transcript inherited it. Oris now re-reads that rate at every point it can have moved, including a device you change part-way through a recording.
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It tells you when the other side isn't landing · minor
If the meeting audio can't be written for a whole session — the failure that leaves the others track empty while everything else looks healthy — Oris now says so while it is still happening, instead of finishing as though the recording worked.
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Safer on a shared Mac · minor
The working files Oris keeps between recordings name the notes and audio it is handling, so they are now readable only by your own account — quiet under-the-hood tightening, with nothing to change in settings.
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Notifications that don't go quietly missing
If macOS notifications are off for Oris, setup now says so and links you straight to the setting instead of finishing as though everything worked — and nothing asks for the permission behind your back, so the one prompt macOS grants always arrives where you can answer it.
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Meetings take the microphone · minor
Starting a meeting recording while a quick note is running hands the mic straight to the meeting, so the two can never fight over it — Oris cancels the quick note within about a second and says why, instead of filing a fragment you never chose to end on.
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Quick Note — say it, and it's filed
Press a hotkey anywhere on your Mac, say the thing, and the transcribed text lands where you told it to: an inbox inside Oris, a note you pin, or a daily or weekly note in your vault.
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Hold to talk, or press to start · minor
Quick Note's hotkey works either way — press once to start and again to stop, or hold it while you speak and let go when you're done.
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A reader for your quick notes
A two-pane window lists the quick notes Oris is keeping for you, grouped by day, and shows the selected one in full — with one click to send it to your vault, copy it, reveal it, or delete it.
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Optional AI tidy-up for dictated notes
Turn it on and quick notes arrive with punctuation and capitals and without the filler words — checked against the raw transcript, and discarded in favor of it whenever that check isn't satisfied.
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Settings that save themselves · minor
The Save button is gone — every setting persists the moment you change it, and saving no longer reverts a value you edited somewhere else.
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A heads-up when a bigger model is on its way
Long recordings summarize with a larger on-device model that downloads on first use — Oris now tells you that's happening instead of looking stuck.
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Safer summary retries in busy notes · minor
Retrying a failed summary in a note holding several recordings can no longer touch a neighboring recording's text — the retry now verifies exactly which block it owns before writing.
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Clearer setup while Obsidian loads the plugin · minor
The setup walkthrough now says it's waiting for Obsidian instead of suggesting a re-install that isn't needed.
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Clearer tabs in the Oris window · minor
The app's section tabs now pair icons with labels, so General, Transcription, Summarization, and Recordings are one glance away.
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A history of every recording
The Recordings tab now remembers your past recordings — duration, word count, talk split, and whether the summary landed — with a full history and one-click retry, and the same stats now show up right in your completion notification.
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Release notes, right in the updater · minor
When Oris offers an update, the what's-new list now appears directly in the update window instead of behind a link.
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The recording button shows what it's doing · minor
The Obsidian ribbon icon now switches to a recording state while you're live, and becomes a stop button on hover — no more guessing whether Oris is listening.
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A roadmap you can read
This page — a public look at what we're building next, what just shipped, and a place to tell us what you'd like to see.
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See your notification status at a glance
Oris now shows whether it can send you a heads-up when a note lands, so you're never left wondering if a recording finished quietly in the background.
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Bring in an existing recording
Point Oris at a Voice Memo, or a Zoom or Teams export, and it transcribes and summarizes it into a note — no need to re-record.
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Stops itself when the room goes quiet
An optional setting ends a recording after a stretch of silence, so a meeting that wraps early doesn't keep capturing an empty room.
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Fresher stats · minor
Your Oris now updates more reliably, so the numbers you glance at reflect what you've actually recorded.
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Safer imports
Importing an existing audio file is now more careful about how it handles the file on disk — quiet under-the-hood hardening so bringing in a Voice Memo or a Zoom export stays safe.
June 2026
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Transcribe in your language
Pick a language for transcription, or leave it on auto-detect and let Oris work out what's being spoken.
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Updates that arrive on their own
New versions download and install quietly in the background, so you're always on the latest Oris without hunting for a download.
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A guided first run
A short walkthrough sets up your vault, the plugin, and permissions the first time you open Oris, so you get to your first note without guesswork.
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Summaries, on your Mac by default
Every note gets a short summary generated on-device — or plug in your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, or Azure key if you'd rather use a cloud model.
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Faster on-device transcription
Recordings are transcribed natively on your Mac with Apple's WhisperKit — no upload, no waiting on a server.
May 2026
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Retry a summary that didn't land
If a summary fails — a cloud key expired, say — the transcript still lands in your note, and one command retries just the summary once things are fixed.
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Decide how long recordings stick around · minor
Set how many days Oris keeps the underlying audio after a note is written, so old recordings clean themselves up on your terms.
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The transcript lands where you were
Start a recording and keep working — the finished transcript drops in at the spot you marked, even if you've moved around the note since.
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Knows you from everyone else
Oris records your mic and the room's audio on separate tracks, so the transcript labels what you said versus what others said.
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A recording light in your menu bar · minor
A small menu-bar indicator shows when Oris is recording and how long it's been running — a quiet reminder that it's on.